Email UpdatesSAMHSA is releasing a new report Medicaid Coverage of Medications to Reverse Opioid Overdose and Treat Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders along with hosting a webinar to improve behavioral health care by understanding the financing of behavioral health care to identify opportunities and challenges to service delivery and access to care.
The report and webinar will discuss the availability of, and access to, medications for treating ongoing alcohol use disorder (AUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) and reversing an opioid overdose within state Medicaid plans.
The report and webinar provide an update on the present state of coverage and availability of these treatments to Medicaid beneficiaries. It also includes examples of innovative efforts to increase access to medications for the treatment of SUDs. This work builds on two prior SAMHSA reports - Medicaid Coverage of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders and of Medication for the Reversal of Opioid Overdose (2018) and Medicaid Coverage and Financing of Medications to Treat Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders (2014).